Engadget: Google music and web based Android market could be announced tommorow

[cbn]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/01/google-music-and-web-based-android-market-could-be-announced-tom/

By Vlad Savov posted Feb 1st 2011 3:42PM

Google's last Android-centric event, Google I/O in the middle of last year, treated us to a pair of delectable demos that may now finally be turning into mobile realities. One was a web client for the Android Market with OTA installations -- you just browse to an app you want to install while on your desktop and choose to push it to your Android device -- and the other was a cloud-based music backup and streaming service. The latter has since picked up the moniker of Google Music in subsequent rumors, and today both are receiving some speculative support for a launch at tomorrow's Honeycomb event. Android and Me has an insider source claiming the web-based Android Market is finally ready to roll out, whereas BusinessWeek reports Andy Rubin is heading up Google's digital music team and also has software ready for release, potentially at some point this month. Given the importance of both new additions, it's highly logical for Google to at least announce and show them off once more tomorrow. Then we can get back to waiting for the next Android update.

 

[zerocool84]

The OTA Android Market should be simple enough to implement but the Cloud based music would eat up bandwidth a lot I would think. It's great but with caps being only 5GB, it'd eat up a big chunk of that. Maybe it wouldn't send actual music files OTA just information. I have no idea though.

 

[KentState]

The OTA Android Market should be simple enough to implement but the Cloud based music would eat up bandwidth a lot I would think. It's great but with caps being only 5GB, it'd eat up a big chunk of that. Maybe it wouldn't send actual music files OTA just information. I have no idea though.

I don't see how it would be anymore bandwidth than me streaming Pandora.

 

[Monster_Munch]

I don't see how it would be anymore bandwidth than me streaming Pandora.

It probably wont be, but it depends on the bitrate they use I guess. I would imagine if you upload 320kbps mp3s they will be transcoded down to a more bandwidth friendly rate when you stream them.

 

[gorcorps]

I'm less interested in the streaming part of it, and more into the backup part of it. I know there's plenty of cloud based backup services already, but one with the OPTION to stream if I so choose is pretty solid.

 

[vshah]

It probably wont be, but it depends on the bitrate they use I guess. I would imagine if you upload 320kbps mp3s they will be transcoded down to a more bandwidth friendly rate when you stream them.

i'll probably prefer continuing to use subsonic for the flexibility and control it offers in terms of bitrates etc.

 

[Patranus]

No way Google gets cloud based music before Apple.

iTunes is the largest distributor of music in the United States. There is no way that the music studios do anything to disrupt their golden ticket.

 

[vshah]

wasn't it just streaming of the music collection you had stored on your PC?